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Wildlife in Uttar Pradesh
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Dudhwa National Park
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Location : Indo-Nepal Border, Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh.
Coverage Area : 614 sq. km.
Main Attractions: Tigers
Best Time To Visit : November 15th to June 15th.
Further east along the Terai, the Dudhwa National Park, which is also
a Tiger Reserve, is localted in the district of Lakhimpur - Kheri, very
close to the Nepal border. The 498.29 sq.km. Park has fine sal forests and
extensive grasslands.
Tall coarse grass sometimes forming impenetrabel thickets, swampy
depressions and lakes characterstics the wetlands of the Park. These are
the habitat of large numbers of barasingha, the magnificnet swamp deer,
noted for their multi-tined antlers (bara-12,singha-horn). These in turn
support the predators-the tiger and leopard. Though the PARK has a fair
population of tigers, they are rarely seen owing to the nature of the
forest cover.
The grasslands are also ideal terrain for the indian one horned
rhinoceros. In an exciting project undertaken in 1984, a number of rhinos
were translocalted here from Assam and Nepal, in an attempt to extend
their habitats and to exclude the possibility of wiping out entire
populations through diseas and epidemics. Presently, 13 rhinos can be seen
in Dhudwa.
Other inhabitants include the sloth bear, jackal, wild pig and the lesser
cats- fishing cat, leopard cat, jungle cat and civet. Dudhwa has also an
abundance of birds. There are spectacular painted storks, black and white
necked storks, sarus cranes and varied night birds of prey, ranging from
the great Indian horned owl to the jungle owlet, Colorful woodpeckers,
barbets, kingfishers, minivets, bee eaters and bulbuls flit through the
forest canopy.
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